Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz boils in Knight And Day

Posted by Humanity Life entertainment, movie 7:08 PM

Knight And Day provides a welcome rainbow of sunny, escapist, international super-spy glamour that rips through the carbon miles like a Ferrari on heat. The plot sees Cruise play a Ray-Ban-wearing covert agent on a mission impossible to recover a super-powered battery (whatever). Cameron Diaz is the ditzy, perma-single, up-for-anything blonde next door who collides with Cruise’s globetrotting life. Typecasting? You bet – but who cares when that’s what made these A-listers A-list.

That the pair really click here is largely down to Diaz. While a stiff, dated-looking Cruise, 47, is edging into ‘well-preserved’ territory, attempting to prove he’s still got it by going topless on the beach, Diaz not only looks smokin’ hot in a bikini, she effortlessly keeps the comedy bubbling. In fact, her turn recalls vintage Goldie Hawn screwball and we need someone to hang on to as the sensational non-stop action careers from Boston to Bermuda, climaxing in a spectacular motorbike chase through a stampede of bulls in Seville.

Director James Mangold (Walk The Line, 3.10 To Yuma) clings on to this action juggernaut by his fingernails, attempting to keep the characters’ heads above the torrent of CGI. It’s all very silly – and overlong – but turn your brain off and it’s cracking fun. There’s no time for thought, anyway: in a blockbuster of such pumped-up energy, it’s like being locked inside Tom Cruise’s attention span for almost two hours.